Definitely so - anyway, when you DO find the record there is an even greater sense of accomplishment :-) Cathy > > Despite the mistakes (and who has not made them) where would our Family > History > research be without Ancestry? > > I can live with the errors, knowing how much extra information I have > gleaned > by using Ancestry. In my opinion, a Value for Money resource. > > > > Jim Parsons > > > > > ___________________________________________________________ > The all-new Yahoo! Mail goes wherever you go - free your email address > from your Internet provider. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html > _____________________________________________ > > Browse the list archives at: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GLOUCESTER/ > > Keyword search - any or all lists: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GLOUCESTER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >

At 12:09 04/02/2007, Tom&Cathy Purcell wrote: >Definitely so - anyway, when you DO find the record there is an even greater >sense of accomplishment :-) >Cathy Hi all, A warm glow, yes! Mind you, given that one cannot use a wild card in the first three letters of a forename or surname, the contortions i.e. lateral thinking, that one has to go through to find some in the censuses does stretch the old grey matter from time to time. Still, I reckon it keeps me sane (ish?) and keeps the brain (sort of) tuned up! Some of the lines and marks drawn after the enumerator has "done his thing" make reading difficult at times. Phil Phil Warn ô¿ô Genealogists do it backwards Family Historians take all steps "The Warn family in Tetbury from 1722" <http://homepage.ntlworld.com/philwarn/FamHist1/index.htm>